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The Apocalypse Of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchinson (YA Fantasy Novel, 2018). Hutchinson has written anumber of well-received YA novels, as well as editing two anthologies in the genre. His latest portrays a modern-day Florida teen identified as the first person scientifically proved to have been born via parthenogenesis (hence, from a virgin mother). That has […]

Medusa Uploaded by Emily Devenport (YA/SF Novel, May 2018). I class this one as YA SF mainly because the lead character, Oichi, is herself a young adult. She’s a common worker (a ‘worm’ to use the insulting local venacular) aboard a generational starship over a century into a sublight voyage to what those aboard hope will […]